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30 notable blogs from Fimoculous

It’s end-of-year-list time on the Internet. Yawn. But as always in amongst the dull there’s the occasional diamond. I’d recommend you have a skim through Rex Sorgatz’s 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 on Fimoculous, a post that is raised from the mire by being really interesting and useful should you be wanting a snapshot [...]

Social Media at the Victoria and Albert

On December 4th I attended C:Cubed, a event put on by Arts Council England and Screen West Midlands to bring people from the arts together with people from the digital, or wherever people like myself come from. The focus was on how arts organisations could do projects within the remit of the 4IP fund but [...]

What Obama’s victory means for social media

When Obama won the US election it occurred to me, and many others, that this was interesting from a social media perspective. During the MSNBC election night coverage one of the pundits blurted out that Obama didn’t “owe” anyone for his victory. Whereas presidents usually had to pay back Big Oil or Big Pharmacy or [...]

Topics for Public Speaking

The other day I was thinking I’d like to do more public speaking next year, and then I read Chris Brogan’s How to start speaking at events which pushed me into thinking I’m going to do more public speaking next year. I’ve done a fair bit in 2008 but it’s mainly been variations on a [...]

Creating Byproducts

Two questions I often get asked by people who want to explore this blogging thing but spend most of their day doing whatever it is they do for a living:
1) How can I justify spending time producing stuff for the Internet that doesn’t immediately earn me an income?
2) How can producing stuff for the Internet [...]